Dickinson Township Road

Citations

• 23 Pa. Super. 34
• 1903 Pa. Super. LEXIS 6

Syllabus

<p>Road law — Rules of court — Certificate of counsel — Discretion.</p> <p>Where a rule of court provides that a petition for the appointment of viewers shall be accompanied by a certificate of counsel, to the effect that the petition is in proper form and the prayer thereof is lawful, and that in the absence of such certificate viewers shall not be appointed, and the court appoints viewers on a petition unaccompanied by certificate of counsel, the court may subsequently permit the record to be amended by adding the certificate nunc pro nunc.</p> <p>Constitutional law — Title of statute — Road law — Act of April 4, 1901.</p> <p>The Act of April 4, 1901, P. L. 65, entitled “An act to amend section 11 of the act of 13th of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six (Pamphlet Laws, 556), relating to private roads,” is not unconstitutional as defective in title.</p> <p>Legislation authorizing the laying out of private roads cannot be attacked on the ground that it involves a taking of private property for private use.</p>